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Skylancer4 wrote:

Synths are tricky normally and now your just adding to it ;-) RAW, a synth summoners body is essentially bound up useless inside the eidolon. Rulings like the eidolon needing arms for the summoner to cast spells and the line about the summoner using the eidolons eyes to see, etc. would actually point to losing those abilities based on physical qualities of your race when melded.

Basically, unless you spend the evo points on darkvision for the eidolon, you wouldn't have access to it from your own body as you aren't using your own senses when melded for example.

I disagree based on the blurb below:

"While fused with his eidolon, the synthesist can use all of his own abilities and gear, except for his armor. "

Also why/how are you buying darkvision? Eidolons start with it for free.

Ahh that's why I thought it would be retained. I knew there was a reason I thought that.

Hmmm. That would seem to imply that maybe you would lose the immunities related to physical attributes and retain the ones related to mental attributes. That's a can of worms I'd just assume not open.

It might be best for me to let sleeping maniacal teddy bears lie.

I was working on a character concept and started working towards the idea of a Soulbound Doll Synthesist. My question is about what happens when the construct is merged with the eidolon (an outsider). Does the merged entity still have the construct's immunities? The synthesist description (quoted below) talks about effects related to a type, but not about abilities that come from being a particular type. My assumption is they would be retained just like a dwarf's darkvision or a gnome's racial magic trait. Am I reading it correctly?

He counts as both his original type and as an outsider for any effect related to type, whichever is worse for the synthesist. Spells such as banishment or dismissal work normally on the eidolon, but the synthesist is unaffected.